Hi, you need to gather the input into a variable first, and then see if there is more than one number per line entered, something like this (adds a little error checking too): 

use strict; use warnings;
use feature 'say';
use Scalar::Util 'looks_like_number';

say "Please input numbers to be summed. Crtl-D to stop";

my $user_input;

while ( <STDIN> ) {
    $user_input .= $_;
}

total( $user_input );

sub total {
    my $in = shift or die 'No numbers provided!';

    my $user_total = 0;

    for my $line ( split "/n", $in ) {
        chomp $line;
        for my $num ( split /\W+/, $line ) {
            die "$num doesn't look like a number!" if not looks_like_n
+umber( $num );
            $user_total += $num;
        }
    }

    say "Total: $user_total";
}

__END__

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Output: 
$ perl 1226028.pl
Please input numbers to be summed. Crtl-D to stop
12 12
Total: 24

$

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Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Summing numbers by 1nickt
in thread Summing numbers by catfish1116

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